OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, 61, is one of five aboard a submersible missing since Sunday.
Stockton Rush, CEO of the private deep-sea expedition company OceanGate, previously implied that the Titan submersible was «pretty much invulnerable.»
He is among the five people missing since Sunday after communication was lost with control operators, joined by French submersible pilot Paul-Henry Nargeolet, billionaire British explorer Hamish Harding, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman Dawood. The rescue mission for the vessel that attempted to visit the Titanic wreck some 13,000 feet deep in the Atlantic Ocean has drawn worldwide attention.
In an April 2017 interview with CBS News, Rush, 61, described the Titan as a «Cyclops 2» five-person submersible able to reach such depths. The OceanGate website states that the vessel «is a Cyclops-class manned submersible designed … for site survey and inspection, research and data collection, film and media production, and deep-sea testing of hardware and software.
